We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to any selective college …, high-achieving, low-income students who do apply to selective institutions are admitted and graduate at high rates. We … demonstrate that these low-income students' application behavior differs greatly from that of their high-income counterparts who …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

. As a main motivation for these reforms the policymakers cited strategic flaws of the rules: students had strong … incentives to game the system, which caused dramatic consequences for non-strategic students. However, almost none of the new … manipulate. Simultaneously, the admission to each school became strategy-proof to a larger set of students, making the schools …

? ii) To what extent do schools contribute to their students' academic success? To answer these questions, we model … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We …, controlling for mean reversion bias, we look at each school's value-added.We find that students infer the quality of a school from …

more heavily on an ex post selection mechanism, based on the students' performance during higher education. We analyze how … the enrollment decision is uncertain. Upon observing past performance, students may decide to continue, reorient to … another major, or drop out. We find that ex post student selection is very strong: less than half of the students successfully …